lawsuit and a source of violence has to offer the breaking news that ssl on, on the international is ready for this reportedly bomb to serial polls, including an area where a russian naval base is located with us as the misled interim government in damascus to all the united nations to condemn, as well as military assault on the illegal occupation of syrian line. the most goes military power is also a series of precision strikes on ukraine's power. great response. the key of the tax on russian territory with native supply miss. c republic of georgia comes on the 5th western pressure of where it's upcoming presidential election. whether we will in policy with

a point it's candidates. he will make his pull the sanction against the basic the i will welcome to you. this is almost the international with the very latest world news out. they just get to happy with us. and we start with a breaking news. the is really, uh, photos has reportedly bolton's talk. it says syria is at ports of latasha on top of the law said that it's already inside also host. so russian naval base, which has been stations the for yes, on the prya agreements with the assad government, according to some regional media reports, the id says targeted syrian military science. there's no indication that any russian forces has been affected will keep you updated on this developing story. i mean, wally is misled. the interim government in damascus has appealed to the un condemning the illegal occupation of southern syrian territories by as well. at

a time when the syrian arab republic is witnessing a new phase in its history in which its people are looking forward to establishing a state of freedom, the israeli occupation army has penetrated additional areas of syrian territory. coinciding with buying and shelling, which is still ongoing, targeting a number of civilian and military sites in damascus and various parts of syria. the syrian arab republic condemns in the strongest terms. this is really aggression which represents a serious violation of the 1974. this engagement agreement, it also constitutes a violation of the sovereignty of the syrian arab republic and the unity and integrity of its territories. and is inconsistent with the principles and purposes of the united nations charter. some of these ladies twice have hit the town of mercy off, as well as the homeless country side, or the associate shows the tax on military equipment and vehicles. the infrastructure in the baffled country is ready. military has reportedly destroyed

more than 80 percent of serious strategic assets since the assad government was told by estimates. as senior united nations official has cooled down to is ralph of violation international in syria. justin in recent days in syria and destruction of the syrian air force when there are no pilots, because syria has no functioning government or military that can fly those plans. at the moment, there is absolutely no basis on the international law to preventively or preemptively disarm a country. you don't like, i mean, if that were the case, it would be a recipe. 5 global chaos because lots of countries have adverse raise. they would like to see that without without weapons, and this is, this is completely lost that there is absolutely no basis in, in international law to do in germany. and the united states supply 99 percent of

the weapons exported to israel. they could stop this conflict of interest. these ready prime minister has tried to justify his military's actions in syria by saving it soon about national security. the collapse of the syrian regime created a vacuum on the israel's border and in the buffer zone established by the 1974 separation of forces agreement. israel will not permit jihad of groups to fill that vacuum and threaten is really communities on the golan heights. with october 7th style attacks, that is why is really forces entered the buffer zone and took control of strategic sites near israel's border. this deployment is temporary until a force that is committed to the 1974 agreement can be established and security on our border. it can be guaranteed. meanwhile, the arab league has condense, b is radia salt and dr. patient old syria, egypt, spar ministry, se, se, 22, nathan, for the health of michigan. pyro, to draw so unified stones toward as well as the legal military moves the society of

soldiers published footage on social media raising and is really flag in the so called box the zone inside syria of my friends, the flag of israel and a syrian outpost who was making history saw professional enough to some machine for the 1st time in 50 years and 4 days off to the sad regime felt we entered serial and in the area of the is really bought up with the golden heights. we pop next to the u. n. site and continue out journey up to 2 minutes later we are in the syrian village of could not war. so for sure will . what happened here is something that is not clear at the moment. but thanks to our government's quick reaction, we could enter seriously if there was a situation where on the other side was that there is really no one to manage the country environment. so that's why we went forward. we released forces and we are actually occupying the buffer zone for the most riley's era. korean syria today is

locals. celebrate the end of the 50 year long saw the family room. so it's a trauma central square in the alaska. so thousands of people gathering full friday, pres crowds waving the flag of the serial physician could be heard challenging, revolutionary slogans. among the men in black combat gear with bodie alma on the guns numbers of the highest were on shops for h t. s. terry square. well that's as a protest was met by lisa violence of the northern syrian city of rocca on thursday . i think 6 people were reportedly tell just the us by syrian democratic forces which controlled a region open fire to dispose fellow onto your san demonstrates as the total number of casualties has not been confirmed. so 2 times in the us on social media with go on the fly, a heard and people flee,

and in panic the protest is all reported to of being rallying. and suppose of h t s is list switch of taking control of damascus as well as medicine. dietary also, i'm has seized control of the capital in most of the nation's territory, following the power grab us secretary of state and the clinton public. the decay has washington support for the power military group, various options, and now raised it and to stake a claim on valuable arable and energy which lands adding to the may head and on says and see and bottled syrian. so let's take a look a closer look that would, who controls what's territory. and the know the yellow locks areas helped by the us box theory and democratic forces which is allegedly linked to the p k. k. a regional co dish and such a group in the east that says that an amazed the turkish fact militants have taken over the city of long beach. all of the green they can see here on the map is

controlled by hyatt to red alshaun terrace. meanwhile, another organization still reported the via the control is the serial. now me remnants of which determines to keep fighting a gave c h t s as the most formal offices and soldiers from the late tigers. special forces units have we grouped in the mountainous regions near the lebanese border pledging to continue the struggle? of we have been fighting terrorism for 15 years in syria. we didn't withdraw, we didn't surrender. what happened recently? we don't consider it a surrender. we're going back to the back line and we are going to fight. the turmoil and syria has bought a new c monetary and dissolved so whether if a 1000000 people forced to flee that homes and that mass sold, which is a basic supplies. the united nations is sounding the law more than 1100000 people are now displaced across syria. sees the recent escalation of facilities for shortages continue to be reported. an e mail label as

a result of bakery closures, due to flour and diesel shortages, vegetables supplies are limited, electricity outages persisting some neighborhoods and fuel prices remain high. and the regime change in damascus has ways times you have questions over the face of millions of syrian refugees. he's been living in europe since 2011. but just by the ongoing chaos in the country, some areas, politicians, things through an ag spots to go back. still 3 in a chunk of that has even also the refugees, a hands out to leave his country. austria will support the syrian school, wish to return to their home country with a return bonus of a 1000 euro. the country now needs its citizens in order to be rebuilt. ongoing asylum procedures for syrian citizens and austria will continue to be suspended. 95000 syrian refugees currently reside in austria. similar calls are also coming from politicians, a neighboring germany, which hosts the biggest syrian dest passport in europe,

numbered nearly 1000000. several european countries have already halted new, assign them a applications for syria's, is what we heard about the situation from some refugees, invalid. it isn't and not just investment. i read in the news that politicians are calling for 1000 euro is to be given to syrians so that they have to or want to go back, which shocked me. i think that's a terrible idea. the situation in syria is just as dangerous as it was before. right. 1 right now, it is not possible to go to syria. the big problem is that when people go to see me and now it is no good, there is still danger that syria needs another 2 to 3 years for peace and for people to it's a new policy must emerge. we did not know what the new policy will be right now. let's cross live too much match, right to po lou, assistant professor at a month and are to play and investigate. and so again,

many thanks for joining us. it's very nice to see you. i'd like to ask for your thoughts on these calls were hearing from europe and politicians to full syrians to return home while the country remains in k else. well, thank you for helping me again. it's good to see again, well, there's a new process in syria. the new era has starts with the, the, the for like, i always a frame. this process is a relation of course, sending back to displacing the see. see if you can utilize the shows that you're looking countries do not adjust the let's say their position when they have uh, you know, admin that these cdns will be safely live in the countries. but of course, the children station off for this place and shooting is that a loss of no statistics? it will see the features over the 7000000 is evening inside,

displaced internally and around 5400000. refugees in neighboring countries, such as 1311 a jordan, and also new. and these changes have been facing the, you know, the cubes, accessed to healthcare of education and employment, of course and, and into another displayed personal cd of both on the leave in older crowd boot camps with limited resources and ongoing security address so that there are lots of barriers in terms of featured think blackwell, safety has not been sold. the, there must be a pull to go and a gun stick. you've just double check and see the bills for those. if you choose to turn back to countries. and of course, an infrastructure has been destroyed because of the civil war. it's worse for long as you, but it's not just the assume

a little between resume and non states actors or what are we to quote and of course the it's a fee of, of a persecution by some non state elector submitted to the powers. so the safe jordan has not been established. yes, but there must be some counties or there must be some international actors or international organizations to deal with it because is not, i mean, refugees are not just suffering from these problems, but also, and they have being affected european or american poets. you know, it sounds has been made, it claimed that he will send the bullet if you choose the country well and also seem to even if, even if they, the politicians do get their own way. and the syrians living in europe goes back to the native country. what that really results to migrant crisis in the u, which also has taken in millions of ukrainians. for example, a yes. and there the,

you just leave that you're getting countries have doubles. turns out on you claims your opinions and they haven't been able to enter the countries. i mean, ukrainians, they have been val, comes in, you're looking countries as there's a frequency or middle listings. people, there hasn't been real come into these companies. and also, as you say, it's not easy to solve the problem. it's not just about the middle east and the savings leads, or the international company to must, to other ties, conditional, safe, volunteering, and a dignified return to united the you in an h, i. c, our guidelines, any technician and reset, but also the problem. most countries face economy again, social strain due to long term of hosting issues just such as turkey and making an integration public policy is critical. and secondly, limited global reception was programs. ready challenges for voters shading so

there are some responsibilities that have been put on international communities which it reach has to be shaped by lots of countries. ink to keep cuts out unable to countries of seed you have any thanks for speaking to us. it's good to hear your thoughts on the topic we've been talking to, and i can better. i could probably the assistant professor at mountain at a to clear university. thank you very much. thank you. to the ukraine conflicts. now the russian defense ministry size is 7. most estimates have been secured by its troops. this week, 3 of those all villages in russia's cost region, while ukraine lost more than $200.00 soldiers in 24 hours. the russian army also destroyed 3 tanks, including 2 british challenges. most of those defense ministry reported as the for any and all may have suffered over 12000 casualties across the old front lines this

week in low. according to the m. o. d. official officials. what advice the military has carried as a sweet thing to tackle and ukraine's energy system? the movies being described as retaliation to cab strikes on russia with western supplies, long range weapons on wednesday. most go stated all of it set targets were hates causing electricity outages across ukraine. he is now requesting additional power from its neighboring european countries, policies. egleston else has more details for us. it was a combined attack in which russia both used at smith's house, cruise, marseilles, and uh, on man drones to head critical energy infrastructure in ukraine. a zalinski has already complained that it was one of the most large scale attacks 2 days. now it's not a record breaking run, but still it is very significant and it is, it was crippling for once again for the ukrainian energy infrastructure upon to ukrainian sources. suggest that right now, the country has only enough power to supply energy to only about half of the

country. but previous reports suggested that basically ukraine has to balance between then to choose whether or not to supply households or the facilities of the military industrial complex, which need plenty of power to operate. and very often, this balance, well it kind of tips in favor of the latter. so really it's so the ordinary citizens who are bearing the brunt of these attacks that are meant to cripple ukraine's while ukraine's and military capabilities and military production capabilities do it is meant to deny the supply of power to those industrial facilities who repair military vehicles and so on and so forth. again, according to or ukrainian sources, at least a types of different weapons were used in this attack. as air raid sirens sounded all across ukraine and explosions of rocks about age regions of the country, including a key of a region including the very capital of ukraine,

which is not which is, it's not a common occurrence. now, when it comes to the reasons behind this attack on wednesday, indeed ukraine use the us made long range attack themselves to try and attack a military field in russia. 7 town of took and rug. uh, 2 of those most houses were shut down and the rest were sent astray by uh, by electronic wolf. uh well goes, they did say to you, they did it still cool, is it some casualties and destruction on the ground? no rush. it has been adamant from the very outset, from the very moment when the united states lifted the ban on the use of the long range miss old and their use against targets deep within russian territory or rather, on the russian, on the internationally recognized against but internationally recognized the russian territory, the russian command was adamant that those attacks would not go an onset, that russia would proportionately respond even sometimes. well,

something that you can would view as even disproportionately. this was the 1st wave of these attacks. it prompted ukraine, or rather, if prompted to it prompted russia to use for the 1st time, it's brand new hypersonic ballistic. my saw a rushing and off to this use top to this attack. this strike attempt on wednesday by attack comes most of the united states and uh, ukraine. they won't, then they will very wary that russia might use the rush, the ballistic meant. so again, it seems that sofa most go has abstained from going this far. but still, the scale of this attack is not very common. and for russia, basically, it says for now, this is, uh, this is it. we're going to stick to just these, to just cruise missiles on the drones. if to speculate the rushes a abstinence from and basically russian not using of the rest of my solve this time, it could be really viewed as something of

a gesture of goodwill. and i was basically assigning that they, they prepared the brushing commodities prepared to well show at least some restraint. and at the same time, showing that even without the ration crush is still very capable of dealing very some very painful and crippling strike against ukraine. the republic of georgia is bracing focused on today's presidential election. whether you wrote in policy with a point, it's candidate paula valenze has binds the use of fireworks. it. public protests of the many police officers will recently attack steering riots. the opposition is fully costing the votes of all the incumbent. wisdom by presidents has refused to step down off to the new leader is chosen. i'm not going anywhere. i'm not going to leave anyone. i'm always asked about it. i will stay here. i'm not sure whether to cool the presidential election of provocation or a party perhaps more of

a party as this will be an event entirely devoid of legitimacy. it will be unconstitutional and legitimate if anyone in this country wants peace. if anyone wants us to emerge from this crisis victorious in any form, there is only one path. that pause is through parliamentary elections. as you heard that george's pro you president saying, she's not gonna spend down with him. monday ends in the next 2 weeks. and she's being showed up by the support of members o, b, e, you call them and they arrived and to be seen just a few days ago saying that they were here on a fact finding mission. now they triumphantly paraded he to the parliament square to meet the protest. this thing, the way to support that protest we went. it is now noisy, 16 since this protest movement started its fall through the violent so the 1st united, so we kind of see that calm down since then. you can see this guy behind me is fairly empty. i'd say it's being quite generous. they're all probably around

a 1000 people out on friday night coast going back to lose any piece you said they came here to come on this find emission to understand the situation in georgia in. ringback thing we in not fact finding mission, they spoke to the pro e u president. they spoke to the protesters, they've spoken to the off position policies. they have not spoken to anybody from losing coffee in georgia dream. and as a result of that, uh, the reading policy has described bits of logical forces because they say that they are behind the protest movement stuff. these any piece of now issue to statement calling only you to know, sanctioning members all georgia dream on the families. but also calling for the lead is to make the way to do receive and show the support for this protest, which we will take back to the european parliament and our member states a dramatic message requiring immediate action. it is our firm belief that the

recent parliamentary elections can not be recognized. the new parliament was inaugurated in breach of a stablish george and rules and procedures. in such a context, the election of a new president would lack legitimacy more over the level of repressions against citizens and independent journalists is unprecedented. and unacceptable. the e, you should immediately introduce sanctions against all those leading political figures who played a role in orchestrating the democratic backsliding, severe election violations, and a brutal violence against hundreds of peaceful protesters for we have heard from one needed that is francis emanuel mack on, interestingly enough, judges pro and you present this instead of me sort of really was actually born in fonts and raised said did her education that. and she met with president michael and just in the last week or so when she was in power to attend the reopening of notes, exam cathedral. now she's got, he's simple clearly because he's come out knowing the criticism of the allegations

from the routing coffee here in georgia, that's georgia dream that the west saw you, the, you and other western forces, all behind violent protests. we have seen over the past 16 days renew up in the u, does not obliged. europe offers paving the way for equal partnership prosperity and common values. europe does not intimidate, does not use threats. europe does not seek to sell chaos. europe does not seek to destabilize or subjugate its neighbors through war or hybrid means it does not seek to so discord or confusion among its citizens. the european union respects the sovereign will of the people, the history and the identity of nations. for example, the 1000 year history of the georgian people, the e. u, does not dictate what national interests are, in particular, it respects the territorial integrity of georgia. i'm the new old. well, it's not true. the doesn't dictate national interests. so i think some of you members, namely hungry and slovakia would happen very different opinion on math. and then

mike called him saying that the respects to just national it's territorial integrity, again is not true when we have a new repeating every piece who's been coming here to show support for a protest movements. and not even bothering to speak to the reading coffee about that view or what's been happening in that country. and what's really interesting is that georgia dream has spoken out again and again saying that what's happening in georgia now is reminiscent of what happens in crane was it might include back in 2014 because if you remember back then the e was also supporting those protest movements you members were also going to add to ukraine to support those protest movement. and it's interesting to see the fact that the routing policies suggesting that there is a link to between these 2 attempted crews. they saying that that starts essentially

what they trying to do in this country. and of course, the might include in 2014 a, pulling down the democratically elected leader of ukraine at the time of georgia. dream is that it is determined, absolutely determined that the same fate won't happen to its country. so let's discuss these developments with george samuel, a senior research fellow with a global policy institute thing time when he, thanks for joining us on the program to just get to see. so what do you make of all the west and support for the incumbent georgian president who is refusing to step down in violation of the countries low cost to? well, it's possible, of course the west has made it a habit to recognize only those elections that result in the pro wes, than a candidate winning even though those elections are clearly uh, fraudulent the case in point was there a re election in mold over a few weeks ago of my assigned to when he was all the, as even to the pro

e u media. that was absolutely broad. so this was exactly what we had expected. and now that you know, the west has thrown its way behind a, a, a french woman posing is a georgia. some of them is, are a bit really, was openly advocating violence, openly calling for protest in the street over to any, a democratic collection. and essentially, the one of the, the western powers are supporting a woman who simply say, i'm not going anywhere. i'm just going to stay in the presidential palace this. i'll go over to that we to good about how we supposed to recognize the democratic process in a peaceful transfer about when it came to what happened in the united states. i see, is there a best friend that you the incumbent, george and president holds him barely any real power in the parliamentary republic anyway? so why is she so determined to cling to her seat?

is it just, you know, as a symbol a? yeah, i think it is more of a symbol. she rejected outright the, the parliamentary election, even though the georgia dream body had one very decisive. there was some like 56 percent of the vote and she's been sticking to that line. but somehow it was all a fraudulent and the somehow the russians had stolen it. but of course she hasn't been able to present any serious evidence that there was any russian involvement all that it was stolen. i mean, just because you've been side some irregularity here. irregularity that and it's spelled even play with the the regularity particularly help the georgia dream. but when she was off, um, would you have any evidence of rushing into a fit or just say, well, i don't have to present any evidence. it's up to the investigating or part is the present evidence of i can throw around this accusation and i can rely on the uh, the west,

the media to repeat them because everything is always the hold of russia. but i don't have to present any evidence. so the new president will be appointed by georgias recently elected parliament. but the west of course is refusing to recognize it dismissed the so why does democracy george only seem to apply when the west say so a twisted that's, that's it. now, you know, i think about a week ago we were talking about what's happened in romania with a romanian constitutional quote. simply outright cancelled in the election link tire election. not even on the 2nd round of the vote in just the entire election. because the, the man who was obviously headed to winning it and when he gets very confidently, you'll just go was somebody who has express skepticism about western policy in ukraine and skepticism about the nature. so when you go on have somebody like that winning elections or you're just cancel it. so that's where the now the west of

operation, whether it's a in romania, whether it's in georgia and they're going to be some more electrons in the 2025. but the also not likely to go nato's way of going to be elections and. busy areas are going to be elections in the czech republic, so you can expect more of this kind of tool that where we got, except the selection results because of a russian interference. we don't have any evidence of it just like they had no evidence of those roughly to feelings of help a jo, just go to win the 1st round of the building, but we're just gonna throw it out there because we can rely on the god in politico in the us new york times that are just to repeat this, these accusations about russian interference. george saw me one day, many thanks for speaking to us today is friday evening. we've been talking to joe signing lease senior research fellow with the global policy institute. think time, thank you. thank you very much and thank you for joining us here and i'll see you internationally if you'd like more details about any of us stories and do have 12 websites all to.